Charcot
\ʃaʁ.ko\
The verdict
“Charcot” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,856. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,856
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charcot · Charcot · French
Charcot · rank #35,856 · 11 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,856
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chagrins
Nearest frequency peer: chagrins (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Charcot »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- carvalho
carvalho
64,148 corpus weight
- centraliser
centraliser
64,147 corpus weight
- chagrins
chagrins
64,146 corpus weight
- Charcot
Charcot
64,145 corpus weight
- chatillon
chatillon
64,144 corpus weight
- chimiquement
chimiquement
64,143 corpus weight
What this shows « Charcot » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Charcot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.ko\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Charcot »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Charcot (IPA \ʃaʁ.ko\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,856 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Charcot, with forms such as "cahrcot", "ccharcot", and "chacrot". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Charon", "Charest", "chariot", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Charcot, spelled C-H-A-R-C-O-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
- 2Jean-Martin Charcot, neurologue français, 1825-1893, père de Jean-Baptiste Charcot.
- 3Jean-Baptiste Charcot, médecin et explorateur, 1867-1936, fils de Jean-Martin Charcot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Charcot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Charcot, avec un front trop bas, avait la rectitude du visage d’un Bonaparte replet, et j’imagine que cette presque ressemblance, soigneusement cultivée, influa sur ses manières et sur son destin. Je n’ai pas connu d’homme plus autoritaire, ni qui fît peser sur son entourage un despotisme plus ombrageux.
Charcot se buta toute sa vie à une description de l’hystérie qui ne correspondait pas à la réalité, à une doctrine des localisations cérébrales manifestement enfantine et fausse, à une conception erronée de la structure histologique du foie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrcot
- ccharcot
- chacrot
- charccot
- charcott
- charcto
- charoct
- charrcot
- chharcot
- chracot
- hcarcot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Charcot - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).